New Zealand Gazette

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New Zealand Gazette

description first New Zealand newspaper
language English
First edition August 21, 1839
attitude September 1844

The New Zealand Gazette is considered to be the first newspaper in New Zealand .

history

Its first edition was still produced in London on August 21, 1839 . Its editor was Samuel Revans . The second edition was published eight months later. It appeared in Petone on April 18, 1840 , and thus already in New Zealand. After 20 issues, Revans added " and Britannia Spectator " to the newspaper's name .

Revans was originally hired by the British colonization theorist Edward Gibbon Wakefield to create a newspaper for the New Zealand Company's colonization project . Revan did this so thoroughly that the sheet as the voice of the public New Zealand Company was perceived and all the more so since Revans with his newspaper in the conflict of the New Zealand Company with the administration of the colony New Zealand clearly on the side of the Company proposed . This eventually led to the New Zealand Colonist being brought out in opposition to the Gazette in 1842 .

In September 1844 the New Zealand Gazette was closed without causing a stir. The newspaper's staff found new employers in the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian newspapers , which appeared in Wellington just a few weeks later.

New Zealand Government Gazette

In 1841 the government of what was then the New Zealand colony published a newspaper called the New Zealand Government Gazette , which was published in Kororāreka . Later, after the New Zealand Gazette disappeared from the market, the government's official newspaper was renamed the New Zealand Gazette .

The New Zealand Gazette is still the official gazette of the New Zealand government and has been online since September 1993 and in PDF since 2000.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reginald Brian O'Neill : New Zealand Press - Pioneer Newspapers . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 (English, online and 12 other pages [accessed December 15, 2015]).
  2. ^ New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator . National Library of New Zealand , accessed February 21, 2014 .
  3. ^ New Zealand Gazette . Petone Settlers Museum , accessed February 21, 2014 .
  4. ^ New Zealand Gazette - About us . Department of Internal Affairs , accessed February 21, 2014 .